Darnelle Melvin

"Everybody was screaming out, 'what record is that?!' It wasn't a record – it was the 808": Roland celebrates 45 years of the TR-808 with Rhythm Creators video series Episode one premieres today with Egyptian Lover, and later instalments will feature Fatboy Slim, Prince Paul and Soul II Soul's Jazzie B

"Everybody was screaming out, 'what record is that?!' It wasn't a record – it was the 808": Roland celebrates 45 years of the TR-808 with Rhythm Creators video series | MusicRadar share.google/tCWODVEnACSS...

09.08.2025 21:42 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

LD4 2025 Conference: From Negatives to Knowledge: Linking Com... View more about this event at LD4 2025 Conference

Next week starts the 2025 LD4 Conference on Linked Data. @CoryLampert and myself will be facilitating a Workshop entitled "From Negatives to Knowledge: Linking Community Archives with RDF" (sched.co/26eOD).

Conference registration is free: 2025ld4.sched.com

25.07.2025 20:58 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Action figure of @metadataguy

@metadataguy Action Figure

30.04.2025 02:02 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Great quote I heard this morning. "Sidewalks exist because not everyone is built for the streets!" Love it

09.04.2025 23:04 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Darnelle Melvin: Research and Presentations - YouTube This collection showcases my scholarly contributions across various topics, including work in Wikidata, metadata management, semantic web technologies, or cu...

Here is a playlist of past conference presentations I've given. #metadata #linkeddata
youtube.com/playlist?lis...

30.03.2025 16:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are looking for a Digital Collections Librarian. nshe.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/UNLV-Externa...

11.03.2025 23:49 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Saving History: UNLV students work to preserve Las Vegas photographer’s historical images UNLV students are hard at work preserving the images and records of Las Vegas photographer Clinton Wright, whose decades of work shed light into African American life and experience in the 1960s and b...

The metadata work our students are doing on the Clinton Wright collection is amazing and were featured on Fox5: www.fox5vegas.com/2025/02/27/s... #unlvlibraries

27.02.2025 22:56 — 👍 6    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 1

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample The BBC is bringing back its Radiophonic Workshop as a tool for a new generation of musicians.

The BBC’s library of classic sci-fi sounds is now available to sample

19.02.2025 20:30 — 👍 1107    🔁 438    💬 11    📌 30

First rain on my face in 215 days. Feels wonderful.

13.02.2025 19:56 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0